Development of accessible toolset to enhance social interaction opportunities for people with cerebral palsy in India
Manjira Sinha, Tirthankar Dasgupta, Anupam Basu · 2014
In this paper we have developed a toolset that will allow people with severe spastic cerebral palsy (CP) and highly restricted motor movement skills to access popular social-networking and communication mediums like, Facebook and E-mails. To understand the requirements of the intended users we have performed a number of surveys that acted as basis of our system design. The developed tools use special access switch based scanning technique for easy navigation in different applications. We have evaluated the toolset with six target users. The preliminary results demonstrate a positive response.